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NEW AVENGERS #42


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  1. Avatar photo MrGlass says:
    June 23, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    I want some god damn payoff with the secret bloodly invasion already.

  2. Avatar photo Guardedmarman says:
    June 23, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    Which Avengers (out of the main 3) will be best this week I think this one will.

  3. Avatar photo robee says:
    June 23, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    The last 5 issues of this are sitting in my folder at my shop, I really should catch up to these issues.

  4. Avatar photo coltrane68 says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:06 pm

    Shocking story? I suppose. Hardcore retcon – absolutely. I know Bendis claims to be a continuity nut, but I didn’t know he was such a retcon fan.

     

    Don’t want to spoil anything – just check this issue out and respond.

  5. Avatar photo torippu says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Why isn’t this issue a continuation of the Savage Land story?  Not that I am complaining about the Cheung art…

  6. Avatar photo marvelzombie says:
    June 23, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    I’ve been liking the fill in bits that this book along with Mighty have been giving, but I long again for story arcs.  Please don’t tell me we are going to get 8 months of support till Secret Invasion is over.

  7. Avatar photo thebouv says:
    June 23, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    I think the New Avengers are going stay in Savage Land .. FOREVER!

    Eh, I’m enjoying it though.

    So many Avengers this week!  🙂

  8. Avatar photo JimmyD says:
    June 23, 2008 at 11:14 pm

    This will be the top of my stack this week.

  9. Avatar photo Webnet says:
    June 24, 2008 at 2:58 am

    I wonder if this will payoff like Bendis has been hoping it will.  Breakout was fun but sorta rushed and a little random and if this answers why and how all the villians got out of Rykers I will be satisfied. Can’t wait to read this.

  10. Avatar photo ActualButt says:
    June 24, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    @coltrane68 – it seems like you’ve already read the issue, and i havent, but i still have to say it.  If Bendis is going back to New Avengers #1 with the invasion, is it a retcon if he’s been planning it the whole time?  He’s been saying for a couple years now that something big was coming and that it would go all the way back and have roots in the beginning of his New Avengers.  Now, if it goes back before that and changes something that Bendis didn’t write with SI in mind, or something that he didn’t write at all, then yeah I guess thats a retcon.  Otherwise it’s just good storytelling.  Either way is fine with me honestly, but having read Bendis’ work for a long time, I’m inclined to go with good storytelling.

  11. shogunt says:
    June 25, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Bendis is a fan of continuity, but only his own continuity.  He seems to discard everybody else’s pretty readily. But since he’s writing practically everything nowadays, that’s not so bad.  Still, SI has been a monumental disappointment thus far, and I’m hoping that eventually they stop with these "events" in separate books and just crossover in the regular titles again.  These fill-in stories aren’t at all exciting.

  12. Avatar photo zachtastic4 says:
    June 25, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    Shogunt is bitter because he wanted to be the main villain of Secret Invasion, but Spider Woman is the skrull queen instead of him. Poor thing.

  13. capcool says:
    June 25, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Solid story but I think the Pym continutiy is off betweent his and his bits in mighty this week

  14. Avatar photo SteveM says:
    June 25, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    This book was amazing this week.

  15. Avatar photo projektidiot says:
    June 25, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    I’m a proud fan of SI so far.

  16. Firest says:
    June 25, 2008 at 10:59 pm

     

     

    My local comics store has all the SI stuff on it’s own rack.  I went in today, picked New Avengers up, skimmed through it and put it back.  Then I looked at all the other SI stuff on the rack that’s come out this week and realized that I just didn’t care anymore.

  17. Avatar photo AlexG says:
    June 25, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    @Firest–I’m with you. MONTHS AND MONTHS of backstory and now this month we get…re-drawn panels from NA #1! Zzzz

  18. Avatar photo NealAppeal says:
    June 26, 2008 at 3:43 am

    I really liked this. This and Mighty made me realize not just the size of the skrull invasion, but how well thought out it was, and how much they’ve comprimised everything. Yes we got a bunch of re-drawn pannels, but how wondefully re-drawn they were. I liked this book a lot.

  19. Avatar photo Simon says:
    June 26, 2008 at 11:42 am

    I really liked New Avengers and Migthy as well… the thing is that. of SECRET INVASION, the invasion is happening in the mini and the secret is happening on the AVENGERS books… Personally I like this side of it a lot better.

  20. RadConsv says:
    June 26, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    This book was amazing. i mean really really amazing. To me this is good storytelling not a ret-con. I just wonder if we will get another book:

     House of M:Skrulls

  21. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    @RadConsy: Well considering were getting House of M: Civil War starring Magneto…Then sure why the hell not add another series to a title that was done 3-4 years ago?

  22. Avatar photo SamMorgan says:
    June 26, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Bugger! This didn’t ship in the UK this week! <Fingers in ears> Nahh!! Nahh!! Not listening!

  23. Avatar photo SteveM says:
    June 26, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Dudes, this stuff is off the hook, Bendis has basically made NA, MA, and SI into one huge epic superhero movie–done ina "Pulp Fiction" or "Usual Suspects" kind of way.  Bendis, you are knocking this $*!# OUT OF THE PARK, in my opinion.  It may even salvage Civil War’s sorry butt in the process.

  24. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    June 27, 2008 at 8:44 am

    I hear that SteveM!  I’ve been loving SI and the tie-ins.

  25. Avatar photo thebouv says:
    June 27, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Ditto on everything you said SteveM.  Glad I got back into comics right at the beginning of SI.

  26. Avatar photo RobAbsten says:
    June 28, 2008 at 8:37 am

    Put me in the "Really digging this" camp. I went back and reread New Avengers 1-25 over the last two weeks, along with Illuminati, House of M, and some other Bendis books and yes, it does appear that he ain’t lying when he says this has been brewing since the beginning. And it’s all working for me. All of it. Even the tie ins so far.

    Enjoyed the heck outta this book, as well as Mighty. Only complaint, I didn’t need the redrawn pages because I already have ’em and (as noted above) recently read ’em. Other than that, 4 Art, 5 story.

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